MapMaster: Bring it, baby! Pittsburgh is a righteous destination by me! Or any of Canada in between!

(No, stop, Squidmark! You freakin' loser, you've already snagged the tag three times, probably just to keep up with EC! Never mind that you went to college in the 'burg and need just one more little excuse to head out that way ...)

Ditto on the Squidmark comment. As they say... timing is everything. Wicked nice of the Mainers to help you out with miss eggy. As any Maine expat... we miss it. The SMIBs will be riding by end of August. Translab trip . May take the stud mill road back for more dirt and crash at my Dad's place in Augusta.

Rode into Meat Cove last night, not sure that I'd find anyone else there on a Sunday night early in the season.
Met EvilClown and few other Maine Rider ff's. Campfire time conversation topics touched on TOR and I was eggcoouraged to take a little ride to the very end of the road.

I'm heading back the the states in a few days and eventually back home to PA in another week or so. Will either find a likely spot along the way, or locate a nice nest to hold an egg near home.

Cheers,

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:eek1 You went up that road on THAT bike?

I am impressed. Sorry I didn't didn't get to meet you!
Have to say I thought the tag would stay a little longer.

I am impressed. Sorry I didn't didn't get to meet you!
Have to say I thought the tag would stay a little longer.

In case you missed how it is on a sunny day.

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Thank you, the VFR is not bad on dirt or gravel as long as it's not too deep and loose. It absolutely sucks in the mud though and I can't begin to describe the terror of riding it over sand.
EC and the others were afraid that it would sit too long .
Easiest tag run I've ever done even with the gravel - less than 1/4 mile - the grass almost grabbed me pulling out of the camp area though.
The weather at the camp was fine, but it must lie in a nice little rain shadow, cause everywhere else SUCKED! I went by a lot of unseen scenery on my way there and back.
I'll have to go back sometime to check it out when this thing called the sun is about.

So I'm getting to know this fellow a little bit (lots more history to read up on). He/she (hard to tell gender of an unhatched ovum) is a bit of a hardboiled character, but a great drinking companion. Doesn't drink much, listens to my lies (I mean stories) w/o interruption, and doesn't eat peanuts in bed. All in alll, a good egg.

Lessee... retiring EOD as EMCS? Not sure if the 3MC was nuke or EOD or both, but either way...
Yes, that pin is something.
But what it really means is that Dave will have some good stories over beer!

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Oh...plenty of stories

But I wasn't an EOD Tech. (Them guys is crazy, who walks towards things that go "Boom"??)
My last Command was with Navy EOD where I was the Maintenance and Material Management Coordiator (3MC)
(fancy name for making sure the guys in the field have the right instructions for maintaining their gear)

Both or neither depending on the viewpoint
PCS - USS Sam Houston - SSN-609
That is not a typo, when I rode it, the missles were gone and it had been redesignated as a fast attack - tho we called ourselves a slow approach.
TAD to USS Florida - SSBN-728 for it's first patrol to see what boomer life was like.